Saturday, July 10, 2010

barely simple top

Materials: 6- marble cotton 25g any color of choice ( in this project i used purple)

2 mm crochet hook

This top is made from top to bottom: S to M size

Begin at neck: ch 156, join with a sl st to first ch, taking care that ch is not twisted.

R1: Ch 3, * skip next 2 ch; (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) all in next ch – shell made; skip next 2 ch, dc in next ch; rep from * to last 5 ch; skip next 2 ch, shell in next ch, skip last 2 ch; join with a sl st in top of ch-3

R2: Ch 4; * shell in ch-2 sp of next shell – shell over shell made; dc in next dc, ch 1; rep from * to last shell; shell over shell; join in 3rd ch of ch-4.

Has anyone successfully made this top? I have started but I'm stuck at the armhole shaping. I really want to complete this pattern but don't seem to have enough chains when working on Row 11. So I'm stuck at this Row and can't complete it based on the instructions. Any help suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

To those stuck on R 11, look at the picture. You are creating sort of a cap sleeve. You chain 36 to created the underarm and the skipped shells create the cap and the sleeve opening. The next round, you will be crocheting down from the chains all the way around. It sounds confusing at first but once you do it, it makes perfect sense. One of my first baby patterns 30 years ago was a baby pinafore based on the same idea and it didn't make sense to me then either but it worked up nicely.

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